Neighbourhood Watch

Neighbourhood Watch Schemes have been running in the UK for over 25 years, encouraging residents to help protect their own communities.

The schemes can help cut the opportunities for crime and anti-social behaviour and improve the quality of life for local residents and tenants. Other benefits include:

• Preventing crime by improving security, increasing vigilance, encouraging community spirit and reducing opportunities for crime by increasing crime prevention awareness.
  
  
• Assisting the police to detect crime, by promptly reporting suspicious and criminal activity.
  
  
• Reducing the fear of crime by providing accurate information about risks and by promoting a sense of security and community spirit, particularly amongst the more vulnerable members of the community.
  
  
• Improving police and community liaison by providing effective communications, such as alerting co-ordinators of local crime trends which they can disseminate to their scheme members and by members informing the police of incidents when they occur.
  

Neighbourhood Watch Schemes can be run for a group of three or four houses or even for a number of residential streets.

Neighbourhood Watch is supported by the police, and the local Crime Reduction Co-ordinators will provide you with information about existing schemes running in the area or help you get your own scheme up and running.

They will also be able to provide routine crime figures, up to date information and intelligence on local issues as well as feedback any outcomes as a result of information provided to the police from local Neighbourhood Watch Schemes.

Listed below are contact numbers for Crime and Disorder Reduction Officers (CADROs) for the various areas covered by Gwent Police.

Please get in touch with them if you are interested in starting up a Neighbourhood Watch Scheme or want to enquire about an exisiting one.

If you would like to start a Neighbourhood Watch Scheme in the:

Abergavenny area please contact Andy Charles on (01495) 232 349,

Cwmbrân area please contact David Dewar on (01633) 642 054,

Lower Wye (Chepstow) area please contact Tony O'Connor on (01633) 642 068,

Monmouth area please contact Andy Mason on (01495) 232 328,

Pontypool area please contact Andy Cleaton on (01495) 232 896,

Severnside (Caldicot) area please contact Linda Symes on (01633) 889 374.

If you would like to start a Neighbourhood Watch Scheme in the:

Abertillery, Bargoed, Brynmawr, Ebbw Vale, Rhymney or Tredegar areas please contact Anne Hier on (01495) 232 701,

Bedwas, Blackwood, Caerphilly, Risca or Ystrad Mynach.
If you would like to start a Neighbourhood Watch scheme in the Caerphilly county borough area, please contact your local Neighbourhood Policing Team.

For more information about Neighbourhood Watch, please visit the Home Office website:

www.crimereduction.homeoffice.gov.uk/neighbourhoodwatch

and complete the step-by-step form. The form is easy to navigate and reports can be submitted anonymously.